Berlinale

Arundhati Roy boycotts Berlinale despite premiere of her film's 4K premiere: Decoding the uproar caused by festival's 'films are apolitical' stance

February 19, 2026 6:35 am

Berlinale jury president Wim Wenders maintaining an "apolitical" stance over a question about the Gaza genocide irked Indian author Arundhati Roy, Hollywood actors Mark Ruffalo and Tilda Swinton, and Indian screenwriter Varun Grover among many others.

Soori, PS Vinothraj and team share Berlinale experience as Kottukkaali makes good impression. Watch

February 19, 2024 5:04 pm

Kottukkaali has received a good response at 74th Berlin International Film Festival, and Sivakarthikeyan Productions' shared a video of the team from Berlin.

Express At Berlinale: All of us will die one day, but what if we could live forever?

February 18, 2024 8:03 am

'Another End’ is an Italian film of intrigue and simmering power starring Gael Garcia Bernal, Renate Reinsve and Berenice Bejo

Express At Berlinale: Golda is an admiring biopic and Helen Mirren is marvellous in it

February 22, 2023 1:53 pm

Express At Berlinale: Helen Mirren’s playing of Golda as a woman of steel, unafraid to take tough decisions, is astute; she also looks remarkably like the real Golda.

Holding on and letting go in Stay Awake

February 24, 2022 5:10 pm

When a parent spirals into addiction, where do the children go?

Express at Berlinale 2020 – Day 6: From The Woman Who Ran to Bad Tales

February 26, 2020 11:35 am

Hong Sangsoo’s delightful The Woman Who Ran is a slender wisp of a film, only 77 minutes, and extremely minimalistic in its execution. But the depths that it mines is quite astonishing.

Express at Berlinale 2020 – Day 5: Eeb Allay Ooo! is a biting sharp satire

May 29, 2020 2:36 pm

Eeb Allay Ooo! taps into many things: the waves of unending migration from nearby states in search of a better future, the potent mix of poverty, illiteracy and unemployment, and the daily humiliations of people on the margins.

Express at Berlinale 2020 – Day 4: From Matteo Garrone’s Pinocchio to Christian Petzold’s Undine

February 24, 2020 2:37 pm

The Pinocchio legend, immortalized in the sweet Disney 1940 version, gets an update in Matteo Garrone’s live-action fantasy, starring Roberto Benigni as Geppetto the carpenter who brings to life a little boy carved from wood. Yes, the one with the pointy nose.

Berlinale 2020: Indian delegation discusses collaboration with European Film Market

February 24, 2020 1:12 pm

The European Film Market (EFM) is an annual film trade fair that is held on the sidelines of the Berlinale. It is a major industry meeting place for the distributors, film buyers, producers, financiers and co-production agents.

Express at Berlinale 2020 - Day 1: My Salinger Year is turgid and inert

February 23, 2020 11:50 am

Margaret Qualley, criminally, comes off flat. Sigourney Weaver is better, just a shade, just by the fact that she’s done this for so long. How can a movie about wonderful writing, and writers, be written with so little flair?

Alia Bhatt, Randeep Hooda at Berlinale

February 14, 2014 4:16 pm

Alia Bhatt and Randeep Hooda attended the 64th Berlin Film Festival or Berlinale.

Lifetime achievement award for German cinematographer Micheal Ballhaus

February 19, 2016 6:21 pm

Germany: Syrian refugee serves up Italian-Syrian fusion cuisine at Berlinale

February 13, 2016 12:30 pm

Germany: Meryl Streep, George Clooney and more hit Berlinale red carpet

February 12, 2016 12:02 pm

Berlinale film festival: Meryl Streep for inclusion as jury head

February 12, 2016 12:07 pm

Clooney, Tatum and Swinton on red carpet for Berlin film fest

February 12, 2016 12:07 pm

Clooney has been fielding all kinds of questions — the admiring fan kinds where the questioner gushes before actually asking something, and the slightly spikier ones.